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Behold the free Castlevania preorder goodies

If you preordered Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Konami has some great product …

If you decided to put your five dollars down on Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, you were supposed to get a nice set of preorder bonuses. Take a look at the picture in this post, that is what the package looks like. Not bad, huh? Click on the picture to open it...if you dare.

Okay, I bet you opened it. It's actually a very nice bit of fluff. You get a beautiful art-book with covers and art from all the past Castlevania games, a gorgeous timeline sheet with information from every game, a nice little white case to hold your DS games, an extendable DS stylus, and a soundtrack featuring music from the entire series. The soundtrack is nice, with cuts from even the most obscure Caslevania titles. Rondo of Blood, anyone? It's a great little blast from the past to listen to all that classic music. Jess may look at me like I'm an idiot when I'm grooving along to "Iron Blue Intentions" from Castlevania: Bloodlines, but she's just hating.

This is a pretty slick package, and while the stylus feels a touch on the cheap side, I'm not going to argue with the price of free. I'm glad I preordered, and if they offer more stuff like this in the future I may get back in the habit. Way to go, Konami.

P.S. The game looks and plays great so far, look for a minireview in the coming days.